The Washington Post's Richard Cohen is now referring to them as "Blair Democrats", meaning Democrats who "understood the need for war".
Great.
Let Kerry and Edwards run at that, as they will, and let either present himself to the public in the general campaign as a "Blair Democrat" or "Democrat who understood the need for war".
Kiss the anti-war money and vote good-bye. The campaign of either, faced by a staggering problem already in that both candidates voted to authorize the single event in the last 3 years that has most energized the Democratic party base, is already "troubled". Both of them appear to be political cowards who cannot credibility communicate with the anti-war vote, and must rely on the threat of 4 more years of Bush alone to turnout the liberal vote.
These two candidates, if they want to be viable in the general election season, must do something in public that commits them firmly to the anti-war base's big issue - war - and simultaneously erases the credibility/morality/character deficit established by both by voting to support the Iraq war.
And while they are faced by that challenge, they can try to convince the electorate that supported the Iraq war and militance of Bush why Bush is now in need of replacement.